Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

C. S. Lewis

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

C. S. Lewis

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Carl Sagan

I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

Honore de

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

John Ashcroft

He intentionally selected his victims because of his hatred of women and homosexuals,

Cesar Chavez

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Abdu'l Baha

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it...

Dan Hill

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

Terrance Simien

Whatever inspires us, we throw it into the pot and make our own flavor.

Rose Mashigo

Making love to my thoughts always inspires me to keep my thoughts aroused, for more inspiration.

Lisa Hannigan

Stephen Colbert has such a loyal following; I don't know if it's the same with Jay Leno; he really inspires love in people, and there can be a lucky ricochet of that for some people.

Nikki Sixx

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Simon Van Booy

This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

Alexander Rossi

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

David Phelps

Something in life inspires me, ... I have a song on my new record, 'Visions of God,' about my kids and not missing the important moments.

Antoine Rivarol

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

Dante Alighieri

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

William Shakespeare

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

Maina Kiai

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Aleister Crowley

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Claude Monet

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.